LitDocs

This slide deck is great to use with a middle or high school GSA. It could also be useful in a media course. The slides will guide the group through a series of discussion questions. In the middle of the discussion, students will watch a video that will spark further discussion for the following slides.

These cards can be printed and used as students assess sample essays/narratives or assess peer essays/narratives. The evaluation cards are meant to be used with the NJSLA writing tasks rubrics (Narrative, Argumentative, OR Informative) for grades 6-8. I created these to save paper and have students view the rubrics online. There are six assessment cards per page.

Use this checklist as students decode the NJSLA released rubrics and sample prompts for all three writing tasks: Informative/Explanatory, Narrative, and Argumentative. This can be used throughout the year, or as a review of key terms and elements used in each type of writing.

These cards include a series of claims, some for argumentative writing and some for literary analysis, paired with evidence from non-fictional and fictional texts. Print them and cut them out to use with a small group. All of the literary analysis pairings are from the novel Stargirl, as it is the text my students are working with in the start of the school year. You can change these to fit a novel or short story you are working with in class. I typically give these cards in homogeneous, small

Use this rubric to assess students with any classroom mock trial. The rubric is out of 40 points and assess student preparation, participation, jury notes, and exit ticket reflections.

This resource is provided as a Google Doc so it can be assigned in Google Classroom, giving each student their own editable copy. The document serves as a digital game board featuring major characters from the novel. Just like in the classic game of Guess Who, students ask their partner Yes/No questions to identify the mystery character. It works well as a review activity near the end of the novel, or earlier on to help students keep track of the many characters.

This resource is provided as a Google Doc so it can be assigned in Google Classroom, giving each student their own editable copy. The document serves as a digital game board featuring major characters from the novel. Just like in the classic game of Guess Who, students ask their partner Yes/No questions to identify the mystery character. It works well as a review activity near the end of the novel, or earlier on to help students keep track of the many characters.

These cards can be printed and cut-out to use as manipulatives. I've used these at the middle school level to introduce students to morphology at a basic level, and we use these as building blocks to decode more complex, scientific words. I typically start the activity with a small group, providing each student with a whiteboard and challenging students to compete to create as many words as possible with only these cards. I give them a few minutes, and then we review their findings, focusing on

Print these instructions to use with my Interactive BHM Trivia Bulletin printable.

This strategy can be used with peer-editing for mechanics/conventions. Students simply highlight errors in their peer's essay in order to point out mistakes; however, the peer will have to look closely at each highlight to determine the error they made and make the proper changes. It's a great way to make sure students understand the mistakes they make in their writing, rather than just "fixing" them based on what a partner wrote in red pen. Please feel free to make changes to this document to b